Corporal Hicks got the chance to interview music composer Brian Tyler about his work on AvP Requiem. He just finished recording the score last week and we even have some pictures of them recording the AvPR score.
AvPGalaxy – How long did it take you to actually write the score…?
Brian Tyler – The great thing about this film is that we were all on the same page in what we wanted musically. We wanted it gritty, scary, adrenaline pumping, anxiety ridden, huge as well as quiet and creepy, epic, with a wide dynamic range. We wanted the score to reflect the tradition of the aliens and predators. So it was intensely hard work but in lock-step. The Brothers Strause, Fox, John Davis, Robert Kraft, Mike Knobloch, and the editor Dan Zimmerman were all awesome in pushing forward towards the same goal: let’s make this score kill!
The interview covers a lot of different areas about composing AvP Requiem as well as the processes involved in composing. Check the rest out here.
Thy for the interview anyway!
NOTE: Aliens also used music from previous movies (remember when Ripley and Newt were stuck by the elevators ? Same music from Alien when Ripley left Jones after seeing the Alien at the end.).
Find an old copy of the original 'Aliens Versus Predator' game. It has the entire soundtrack on its own CD. The best attempt to merge the themes, I've ever heard.
I hope this movie is a 2 hour 10 minute film personally. I'm gonna cry if they say it's 1 hour 30 minutes
A film like this needs to be epic, it needs to be 2 hours or more of pulse pounding,electrifying, heart stopping action adventure stuff.
I agree, great news indeed!
One would think that Hicks does this for a living. Great interview.
Nice!
And for the Predator fans out there, he pretty much confirmed that the tribal drums are back. Best news of the film so far to me. Very happy.
I have my moments.
Shall have to wait to hear what the music is like, but if nothing else, 'Decimation Proclamation' seems to show he has a knack for inventive language. "Ear-laceratingly violent" might become one of my favourite phrases now.
Brian told this:
"Well, there is a section of the movie that is 44 straight minutes of music. To tell the story musically and have ebb, flow, dynamics, while continue to ratchet up the tension is extremely difficult. But of course, that is why composing films is such a great job."
That means the music in the film will be only 44 minutes long?